Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… Cosmopolitanism Fiction France Freemasonry Republic of Letters Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He frequented … dangereuses : The rationale for the work is to popularise this truth that there is no happiness except within the family . I can certainly prove this, and I am not at a loss to know where I will take the subject of my scenes from. But … death in Taranto on 5 September 1803 put a stop to his plans to write a work visibly inspired by the bourgeois family model. 13 . Laclos, 'Des femmes et de leur éducation', Œuvres complètes, p. 389-443. Share Partager sur Facebook …
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